APage 42
- English Word Accost Definition To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
- English Word Accost Definition To approach; to make up to.
- English Word Accost Definition To speak to first; to address; to greet.
- English Word Accost Definition To adjoin; to lie alongside.
- English Word Accost Definition Address; greeting.
- English Word Accostable Definition Approachable; affable.
- English Word Accosted Definition of Accost
- English Word Accosted Definition Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
- English Word Accosting Definition of Accost
- English Word Accouchement Definition Delivery in childbed
- English Word Accoucheur Definition A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.
- English Word Accoucheuse Definition A midwife.
- English Word Account Definition A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
- English Word Account Definition A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
- English Word Account Definition A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
- English Word Account Definition A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
- English Word Account Definition A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
- English Word Account Definition An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- English Word Account Definition Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
- English Word Account Definition To reckon; to compute; to count.
- English Word Account Definition To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
- English Word Account Definition To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
- English Word Account Definition To recount; to relate.
- English Word Account Definition To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
- English Word Account Definition To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
- English Word Account Definition To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
- English Word Account book Definition A book in which accounts are kept.
- English Word Accountability Definition The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness.
- English Word Accountable Definition Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.
- English Word Accountable Definition Capable of being accounted for; explicable.